There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those … - John M. Ford

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Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

John M. Ford

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

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I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.

Distractingly, Long, Play, Produces, Reality

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged

Challenged, Locationally, Lost

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

Book, Casts, Intended, Reader, Shadow, Two

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

Borrowed Time, Debt, Interest, Pay, Sufficient

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

Adventure, Course, Culture, Describe, Seen, Travel